News Leader wants us to be socialist

Re: Charities can’t take all the burdens 9/28
I am very surprised on how much Americans and Missourians believe that they are entitled to a free lunch at the expense of others. So far, in Governor Blunt’s short tenure, this is the only thing I feel he has done right. He is completely right when he says government is not the answer. The question is better answered by saying it is not the government’s responsibility to be a safety net. We have hamstrung ourselves to become too reliant on government rather than pulling themselves out. Our Constitution does not give Congress the power to provide entitlements. President Cleveland once said, "I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and the duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering". Charity is everyone’s personal responsibility and not through forced taxation. We’d have no deficit, if we did not have so many entitlements. We should be weary of a government that wants to do everything. Even President Ford was right when he said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have."